Snooping On Emails

Investigating agencies will have sweeping powers to intercept and monitor data on computers after a new home ministry order put out on Thursday. Ten central agencies have been equipped with powers of "interception, monitoring and decryption of any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer," in the order signed by Home S...

Every Facebook, Twitter and email user in India could soon have a new follower: the government. In a massive step with deep ramifications, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has invited bids for what could possibly be one of the world's largest social media monitoring systems - a tool that will track tweets, posts and content shared from ...

Bosses can snoop on workers' emails including personal messages with loved ones during working hours, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in a case brought by a Romanian man fired after his employer spied on his private Yahoo Inc. chats.

Google has stepped up its effort to make it tougher for spies or anyone else to snoop on email, unveiling Chrome browser software for scrambling digital messages.

The company said it would said it will now refer all suspicions of illegal activity on its email services to law enforcement.

The reversal, explained by general counsel Brad Smith in a blog post Friday, follows last week's revelation that it searched through emails and instant messages of a blogger who Microsoft believed had received proprietary code illegally.

John Frank, deputy general counsel for Microsoft, said in a statement Thursday that the software company "took extraordinary actions in this case."

Five ways you'll probably get snooped on electronically, in India.

The Paris prosecutor's office said on Wednesday it had launched a preliminary investigation into the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance programme after French rights groups complained it was snooping on citizens' emails and phone calls.

European spying agency will soon get powers to access a vast range of personal information, including medical data, criminal records, emails and website visits.

Rights groups today slammed British government plans to expand its powers to monitor email exchanges and website visits. Under the new legislation, internet companies would be instructed to install hardware to allow the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) - Britain's electronic "listening" agency" - to go through "on demand" every text me...

Leader of Opposition VS Achuthanandan on Tuesday described the Kerala government's act of snooping into email accounts as fascist. In a statement issued, Achuthanandan slammed Chief Minister Oommen Chandy for "following in the footsteps of the American administration and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi".

Investigating agencies will have sweeping powers to intercept and monitor data on computers after a new home ministry order put out on Thursday. Ten central agencies have been equipped with powers of "interception, monitoring and decryption of any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer," in the order signed by Home S...

Every Facebook, Twitter and email user in India could soon have a new follower: the government. In a massive step with deep ramifications, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has invited bids for what could possibly be one of the world's largest social media monitoring systems - a tool that will track tweets, posts and content shared from ...

Bosses can snoop on workers' emails including personal messages with loved ones during working hours, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in a case brought by a Romanian man fired after his employer spied on his private Yahoo Inc. chats.

Google has stepped up its effort to make it tougher for spies or anyone else to snoop on email, unveiling Chrome browser software for scrambling digital messages.

The company said it would said it will now refer all suspicions of illegal activity on its email services to law enforcement.

The reversal, explained by general counsel Brad Smith in a blog post Friday, follows last week's revelation that it searched through emails and instant messages of a blogger who Microsoft believed had received proprietary code illegally.

John Frank, deputy general counsel for Microsoft, said in a statement Thursday that the software company "took extraordinary actions in this case."

Five ways you'll probably get snooped on electronically, in India.

The Paris prosecutor's office said on Wednesday it had launched a preliminary investigation into the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance programme after French rights groups complained it was snooping on citizens' emails and phone calls.

European spying agency will soon get powers to access a vast range of personal information, including medical data, criminal records, emails and website visits.

Rights groups today slammed British government plans to expand its powers to monitor email exchanges and website visits. Under the new legislation, internet companies would be instructed to install hardware to allow the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) - Britain's electronic "listening" agency" - to go through "on demand" every text me...

Leader of Opposition VS Achuthanandan on Tuesday described the Kerala government's act of snooping into email accounts as fascist. In a statement issued, Achuthanandan slammed Chief Minister Oommen Chandy for "following in the footsteps of the American administration and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi".